Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
...much stress put upon the knowledge acquired from books as at present. It would seem that the authorities believe that study will thoroughly fit a man for all the problems of life. Some of us know the great benefits arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry on in after life as nothing else...
This is a strangely old-fashioned situation for so strikingly modern an analysis of emotions. No realistic detail is omitted. Her refusal to omit from any given sentence any possible detail has indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...
Irony and satire, so pleasantly present in "South Wind," may still be found in "In the Beginning," but the hand that guides is less sure, less deft. The fantastic mythology, created by Mr. Douglas, is pretty hard to keep track of, in their meanderings over the earth and heayens. The gods mix with the ladies, and the goddesses with men, and who is a god of the first water and who is an honest-to-God man is too difficult to perceive for an average-minded reader like your reviewer...